#220 Redesign fedora docs page - add "text to speech" and " what's new" button
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I tried to research and look for ways by which the fedora docs site could be more accessible to people with disabilities or difficulty in exploring and using the web. After much deliberation, I decided that a good option would be to add a "text to speech" button right there on the website, which would be available on all pages.

"Text to speech" would enable people with disabilities like dyslexia (a common learning difficulty that mainly causes problems with reading, writing, and spelling) to be able to access the data on each page of the fedora docs site easily.

I also thought it'd be great to add a "what's new" button at the top right of the site to enable users easily access information on new updates, new developments, upcoming events, and the latest fedora software.
Below is a link to an interactive prototype page showing the "speech to text" and "what's new" interactions

https://www.figma.com/proto/opx3qcXcFYIPzaift58Pl7/Fedora-proposed-front-page?node-id=169%3A643&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=0%3A1&starting-point-node-id=169%3A643&show-proto-sidebar=1

To be able to interact with the page;
- hover on the "what's new" icon at the top right corner
- Click on the "text to speech" icon at the top right corner to open the options and click anywhere on the screen to exit the options.

Why are you submitting the same PR in multiple places?

I like the idea of increasing the accessibility. How would the "text to speech" work on the page? Is that something that most browsers support or would it require an external screen reader application?

How do you envision "what's new" working? Is that something we'd have to manually curate? I like the general idea, but I don't see how it would work in practice.

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